Campbell's Zachary Kapihe was 1-for-4 on the night with a game-winning RBi double in the top of the tenth against Kamehameha. Tyler Guieb | SL

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Campbell's Ian Kahaloa was dominant on the mound against Kamehameha, allowing just one run on five hits in 10 innings of work. He struck out 15 and walked just one to earn the victory. Greg Yamamoto | SL

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MANOA - One pitcher picked for the other and No. 1 Campbell outlasted No. 4 Kamehameha, 2-1, in a 10-inning thriller in Friday's semifinals of the Wally Yonamine Foundation Division I state baseball tournament.

Kila Kapihe's two out, two-run double scored courtesy runner Shane Shimizu from second game with the go-ahead run in the top of the 10th inning to preserve a gem of a performance by starting pitcher Ian Kahaloa. The right-handed ace out-dueled Kamehameha starter Codie Paiva in the 10-inning affair at Les Murakami Stadium.

"He's like a brother to me," Kahaloa said of Kapihe. "He picked me up. It was a good feeling."

The top-seeded Sabers (15-2), who lost in the semifinals the last two years to the eventual state champion, will meet second-seeded Mid-Pacific institute (14-3) for the 57th tournament title at 7 p.m.

"We don't give up," Kapihe said. "We have a lot of heart. We've been practicing these situations day in and day out. It's nothing different."

Dorrien Villanueva-Hermosura will start for the Sabers. The Owls, who have used Chase Wago and Grant Doi in the quarterfinals and semifinals, respectively, have some options, one of them being center fielder Alex Oley, MPI coach Dunn Muramaru said. But he hasn't made a decision yet.

"The goal was to get to the championship game this year," Campbell coach Rory Pico said. "We're going to face a tough Mid-Pac team. They're playing awesome right now. We'll enjoy this one on the bus ride home, at least, but once we get back there, it's back to work."

The Owls are looking for their sixth overall title, the last coming in 2013 against Mililani, which they eliminated in Friday's other semifinal.

The Sabers, though, will be in their first title game since 1978, when they won their only crown, beating Kamehameha, 2-1.

Winning pitcher Kahaloa had season highs in innings, strikeouts (15) and pitches (141), scattering five hits. He walked none, but hit two batters, one who eventually scored the only earned run off him all season.

"It was a grind, but you keep going until you win," Kahaloa said of his marathon performance.

Paisa was just as amazing. He was charged with two runs, one earned, allowed four hits and two walks with five strikeouts in his complete-game effort.

In the Sabers' 10th, Kahaloa led off with hard grounder that deflected off Paiva toward shortstop Kody Cacal for an infield single. Courtesy runner Shimizu advanced to second on Villanueva-Hermosura's sacrifice, but Blayze Arcano-Llacuna flied out to center for the second out. Kapihe then drilled a hanging slider to the left-center alley to score Shimizu before Keola Himan grounded out to short to end the inning.

"The adrenaline kept coming through," Paiva said. "I just hung that ball to Kila and he put a good barrel on it and drove it to the gap. it didn't break all the way. It just hung."

Kahaloa set the side out in order in the bottom of the 10th, ending the game with a nice defensive stop by third baseman Kapihe.

"We struggled a little bit at the plate," Kamehameha first-year coach Tommy Perkins said. "Ian's tough. We just couldn't string our hits together. It was a great game, both sides played great defense. Our kids gave everything."

The Sabers got a jump start on Paiva in the top of the first inning. Bula Sprinkel put down a perfect bunt down the first base line to start the inning and took second on Jobe Ibana's sacrifice. With Kahaloa at the plate, Sprinkel broke for third on a 1-0 count and went head first into the base for the steal, but catcher Kekai Rios' throw sailed into left field, allowing Sprinkel to score to give the Sabers a 1-0 lead before Paiva retired the next two batters.

But Kahaloa got off to an inauspicious start in the bottom of the first His first pitch hit Matt Yokota and an out later, he advanced to second on Rios' flare single to right center. Kahaloa then hit Paiva on a 2-1 count to load the bases. Kahaloa got Chance Arakaki to hit grounder to third, where third baseman Kapihe got a force at second, but the relay to first was late, allowing Yokota to score before Brandon Henderson grounded out to first to end the threat.

It stayed tied the next eight innings. Paiva was efficient, getting the Sabers out early in the count, keeping his pitch count low. At one stretch, he retired 20 of 21. It wasn't until the 10th that he finally allowed more than one base runner in the game. Paiva threw 100 pitches, or an average of 10 per inning.

"I felt he was still strong," Perkins said. "So we left him. He was doing well. He wasn't struggling."

The Warriors mounted a serious threat in the bottom of the ninth. With two out, Henderson reached when first baseman Villanueva dropped a high infield pop up. Pinch runner Nicholas Penzetta took third on Kody Cacal's ground single to center, but pinch hitter Revan Wong grounded out to second to kill the threat.